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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load but needed to arrange debtor in possession financing to provide liquidity while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
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Domestic Students - MBA

with your credit history. Personal Loans Personal loans may be an option for some students, but we strongly recommend that you carefully consider the terms and repayment details. View Details
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

with little ability to cope with a financial emergency. Keywords: Saving ; Personal Finance ; Income ; Nonprofit Organizations ; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Partners and Partnerships... View Details
  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • 25 Apr 2024
  • News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering Entertainment / Media... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

digital tools and data-informed leadership to execute, innovate, and work smarter Identify what makes a successful personal brand to establish your own Gain frameworks and in-demand skills from a business curriculum with breadth and depth... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

online trading platform of Interactive Investor, a London-based financial advisory site. She also spent a summer on Wall Street working for Merrill Lynch in its Financial Institutions M&A group. She began her investment career as an Associate Director in Bank of... View Details
  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 29

equilibrium outcome of a game where a person can-at a cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a set of (intended or actual) choices to the rest of the organization. Strategy is also-in some precise sense-the smallest set of decisions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

instruments and institutions of twenty-first century credit—the installment plan, the credit card, and the home finance industry—are less than a century old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • March 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Vestas' World of Wind

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Elena Corsi
The wind turbine manufacturer Vestas launched the industry's first highly localized and customized new product launch campaigns which used also new tools such as web 2.0 platforms. Used to operate in a market where demand exceeded supply, Vestas had lost contact with... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Marketing Channels; Internet and the Web; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Advertising Campaigns; Global Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Finance; Product Marketing; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry
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  • April 2008 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)

By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge-fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS students on January 23 as part of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

starting the venture subsequently drops out. When the venture gets financing or is ready to go public, this partner returns, perhaps with an inflated view of what his or her contribution was, demanding equity. This problem can be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

market power. This reflected a business system in which a close relationship between finance and industry was discouraged, but where there were few restrictions on the transfer of corporate ownership. Yet large diversified business groups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs faced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details
Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • Web

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering Entertainment / Media... View Details